Nutrition

Omega-3 fatty acids hit the headlines in the 1970s, when studies were taken on the Inuit Eskimos of Greenland. The Inuit had very low incidences of heart disease, despite a high-fat diet, and it was discovered that the fat from fish contained a lot of long-chain omega-3 fats (eicosapentanoic acid or EPA) and docosahexanoic …

It is the type of headline people might have laughed at in the past, but now it doesn’t seem so impossible. The United Nations announced the technology to grow synthetic meat will be available within the next half-century. This will eventually mean meat can be grown and eaten without harming animals or destroying livestock in …